And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

A challenge to the Cartesian and Christian conception of the soul as the principal, or only, component of the self. Descartes would offer his “cogito” argument: “I think, therefore I am.” The body is merely fleshy excess in Descartes' ontological-phenomenological arrangement. Likewise, in Christianity, the soul is that which is Heaven-directed, while the body is most often earthly, even vile.